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Saturday, December 30
Business2.0 : Bluetooth Reality Check "The thing about Bluetooth is that it really will ship in the billions of units once it gains momentum. It's really a multibillion-dollar market," read more... Friday, December 29
allNetDevices : 2.5G to Dominate, Not 3G While global wireless data revenues will reach $450 billion by 2010, third-generation (3G) networks will account for only 24 percent of that revenue, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. read more... Thursday, December 28
AYG : Savos Aims to Stream Audio Ads to Mobile Phones A New York-based firm is betting that users will want to receive both streaming audio and advertising on their cell phones. read more...
allNetDevices : Forrester Predicts Slow E-Book Growth Only $251 million will come from e-books and the devices to download and read them. The reason? "The drawbacks of reading onscreen will discourage all but the most motivated readers," read more... Tuesday, December 26
Wired : Schools Get a Helping Handheld The district's three high schools rolled out 2,200 Palm IIIxe handhelds this fall in what is believed to be the largest experiment of its kind in public schools. read more...
Sunday, December 24
Business2.0 : Dial up a Soda You may have seen the television commercial during the Summer Olympics--an Italian gent, coat over shoulders, is short of change at the soda machine. Enter stylish Italian lady who buys a beverage by pointing her phone at the machine. The suggestion is obvious: The cell phone will replace your change purse, and maybe even your wallet, before you know it. read more...
Wired : FCC Listens to Hearing Impaired Digital cell phones and hearing aids "interfere to the point (that hard of hearing people) don't want to have a conversation at all," Baquis said. "Not everyone has the same kind of experience. There are no identical types of hearing loss so they might experience the annoyance in different ways." read more...
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| " it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value." Boston Post 1865 |